32Sorry that it has taken so long to update, but things have been very busy as the school musical has just started and rehearsals where getting very tiring!
Ron woke up the next morning to find that Hermione was already out of bed and probably already in the study.
He sighed. He couldn't wait to find out what she was up to.
He was halfway to the door when he remembered the ordeal that was yesterday. Again the idea shocked him. His shock turned into anger. Why didn't she tell him and how could she have made him think that everything was okay when in fact it wasn't?
This was it.
He jumped up the steps two at a time, yelling her name as he went, warning her that he was coming. Sure enough there was a scuffling sound coming from the study. If this was yesterday he would have been heartbroken to hear her hiding her work. But not today.
He walked into the dimly light room, to find that Hermione was yet again sitting on the green velvet couch reading a random book.
"How could you do this to me?" Ron asked her as he stood leaning on the door way.
"Do what?" she looked at him with questioning eyes.
Something was up.
"I'm just reading my book." There was something about his posture that said that he knew something he shouldn't.
"Since when do you read books upside down?" He lifted one eyebrow at her.
She looked down at the book and sure enough it was upside down. She quickly turned it the right way around. "I'm trying to expand my brain power."
Ron shock his head. "You mean you're trying to find a way to get us out of finiacal debt."
She gasped. What could have given him that idea?
"That's right. I read your papers when you were asleep yesterday. We're poor again." He put his head in his arms in shame.
Hermione couldn't help it. She laughed.
Ron looked at her in horror. "What?"
"So you came back in here yesterday when I thought that you were out and saw something that gave you the idea that we are broke."
"Yes! Why are you looking at me that way? Its not funny!" Why the hell was she acting this way? Did she think that it was a game?
"We're not broke!"
"What?" Did he just hear right? "We're not?"
"No Ronald, we're not. And if you would have look properly at the piece of paper that you saw, you would have know that too."
She walked over to the desk and took out a piece of paper from the bottom drawer. She handed it to him. She was still smiling.
"Read the top heading" she told him.
Ron recognized the piece of paper to be the one that he had seen yesterday, but he had only seen the bottom half yesterday…
He read out aloud, "Weekly Spending Now". He started to scan down the page trying to find the figure he had read last time. He found it, weekly spending money after food, bills, ect.
He looked up in horror. All of this was for nothing! How could he have missed this?
"So…." Hermione knew that now was the time to tell him, "you don't think we're poor anymore?
"You're arm must have been in the way yesterday." He didn't want her to think that he was that thick, thought it was probably too late for that now.
Hermione just smiled.
There was a pause.
"Ron, I have something to tell you." She had suddenly gotten very serious.
This was what he had been waiting for.
"Ron, we have been together for a while now and…well..." She didn't know the right way to put it.
Ron couldn't believe it. She was going to break up with him? She….How… it didn't make any sense. But it broke his heart all the same.
"Hermione how could you do this to me?" She looked confused. "I love you, and now you want to break up with me?"
"Break up with you? You think that I was about to break up with you?" She loved it the way that Ron was so obvious. 'He thinks I'm going to break up with him, far from it! '
"What else would you be saying, that you want to have a baby?" If she wasn't breaking up with him then what was so doing?
Her smile only widened.
"Hang on….." ' How could I have been so dumb? Why didn't I see it before? ' "You want to have a baby!" he said again.
"Yes Ron, I want to have a baby…" She left her words hanging.
"With me?" He couldn't help it.
"Yes silly, with you!"
"So we're not poor and you're not going to break up with me?" He had to make sure that he had it right. He didn't want her to really break up with him.
"Don't you want to have baby?" Hermione questioned him. This wasn't the way that she thought that he would have reacted.
"What?"
She sighed. This wasn't going good at all.
"A baby. I don't want anything more." He was such a jerk sometimes.
She lifted an eyebrow.
"Hermione, the moment I met you, I knew that you we're the one that I wanted to marry. The one I wanted to grow old with. The one that I would have children with. Hermione, I love you more than anything. I've always wanted this, I just didn't know what you would think about it." He kissed her hand.
She looked deep into his eyes and knew that he was telling the truth.
He pulled her into his arm and held her close.
Her arms found their way to the back of his neck as he kissed her passionately.
"You really want this?" she asked him just to make sure.
"Haven't I already answered this?"
Hermione gently hit him.
"Yes, Hermione I want to this. I've always wanted to be a dad."
They smiled at each other.
"So what actually we're you doing up her all the time?" She still hadn't told him.
"I was doing some research, to see if you would be able to survive with an extra mouth to feed. It's bad enough with just you." She often made jokes about how much he ate.
"And..." he prompted.
"And we will be fine, if we just be careful what we spend our money on for the next few months. That means no more new brooms!" She laughed.
He made a sad face.
"What would you have done if we we're "poor" ?" The way that he had reacted you would have thought that he would rather die than become poor again.
"Its not as bad as I make it out to be. It would just mean that there would be no new broomsticks, or you wouldn't be able to bring that new book home once a week. Hermione, I wouldn't leave you just because we we're poor, you're too special to lose."
They kissed again, but it was more deep and passionate than before. He ended up picking her up and carrying her down the stair to the bedroom.
Out of all of the things that Ron had thought that Hermione was doing, this was never one of them. But he wouldn't have it any other way.
He was going to be a dad.
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